Lake-district meaning

A scenic area of northwest England including the Cumbrian Mountains and some 15 lakes. It is a popular tourist attraction for its associations with the 19th-century Lake Poets, notably Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Southey.
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Lake & mountain region in Cumbria county, NW England.
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A national park in Cumbria, north-western England characterised by its many lakes.
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Sentence Examples

  • The industries of the Lake District include slate quarrying and some lead and zinc mining, and weaving, bobbin-making and pencil-making.

  • Setting aside London and Edinburgh, no locality in the British Isles is so intimately associated with the history of English literature as the Lake District.

  • But it was Wordsworth, a native of Cumberland, born on the outskirts of the Lake District itself, who really made it a.Mecca for lovers of English poetry.

  • But there is a deeper connexion than this between the Lake District and English letters.

  • The Chachu and the Charta are large clear streams, evidently draining from the great central lake district.

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